[Day: Friday, June 10th. Time: 8:00 p.m.] [Yesterday, you beat up a cop, and Chomei and Makoto got bitten by vampires. Or maybe zombies. Today, you're all at the clubroom!] [Oh, uh, Session Start] * Maria is in the clubroom, perched on a desk, which should surprise absolutely nobody. * Peter is.. (GASP!!!) reading up on the Zompires from yesterday. * Chomei is leaning back on one of the chairs, head up and a book over his face. * Chie walks into the clubroom. "Hey, guys." [Actually, Peter is not. 'Cause he can't find records of them :P] * Lazar is in his usual spot next to Peter's desk, again playing with a Slinky. 'Lo, Chie. I think Chomei's trying osmosis learning. * Chomei mumbles from behind the pages. * Chie laughs. "Really? Think anything'll get through?" She winks. * Peter is reading through books looking for references. * Rei wanders in, wearing a hooded salmon-pink sweatshirt, which goes wonderfully with her bright yellow shorts and standard day-glo green sneakers, really. "Yo! Rei's in the hood! With a hood! And banana!" She throws a banana at Chomei. * Maria grins. "Prolly not. That's a pretty thick head to get through." [Rei's screwed up in the head.] * Chie snickers, then waves at Rei. "Hey, Rei. Where's Makoto?" (This confirmed today!) ( Thought I'd make it official. ) * Chomei takes off the book. "Do I even want to see?" 'Lo, Rei. * Rei looks around. Her face falls a little. "Not here?" * Chomei gets thonked by the banana. * Lazar blinks at Rei. "That very bright outfit." * Rei takes another banana out of her backpack, peels, and munches. She blinks at Lazar. * Chie walks over to Rei and speaks quietly to her. "I thought he was gonna stop by your place and see you." It is? Well, I guess it is, but how's it much worse than white? * Rei looks down at her shorts and points. "That is white, right?" Not really. Hey, you have any extra bananas? No is bad thing. Just... is. Bright. * Rei blinks a couple times, looks at Chie, and shakes her head. "No Makoto at my place today. I was there most of the day, so I think I'd know, maybe. Unless he snuck in and got caught in the tripwire-alligator-Flower Dew trap. * Rei idly takes another banana out of her backpack and tosses to Maria. ( What Lazar meant to say is, "No, is bad thing." :P ) * Chomei looks at Rei and quickly brings his book over his eyes. Huh. He said he was gonna... well, I hope he didn't start feeling bad. He sounded fine when I called to check up on him. * Maria catches the banana and makes a mental note of the trap. * Maria peels the banana and munches. :9 [It tastes like an orange. Darn these grade G bananas.] (Bananas are the citrus of the future. @_@) Oh... Chomei. You no craving blood, running from sunlight, right? ( Nope. It's artificial flavoring ) * Chomei gets up. "Nope, but I could go for some Rock Candy." He grins. Shoulda said so earlier. I coulda made some. But as is, no candy for you! ... rocks with sugar? That no sound tasty... hurt teeth... * Maria prolly can't tell. But it's food. :9 * Chomei facepalms. "Nevermind." * Chie grins. "You on a sugar high, Chomei. I just can't picture it." * Peter sips a cup of tea he brought with him and continues to read. * Maria smirks. "I can. And it scares me." * Rei goes to have a seat and looks around. "Wonder where Makoto is. Probably got caught up with his aunt again. Maybe another cat snuck in? They really should do something about that. Hrm." * Chie blinks. "His cat?" He has a cat? No, not his cat, a different cat, 'cause his aunt's allergic to cats and that's why he wasn't around one of the times. OH. So he doesn't have a cat. Obviously. ( Oh, even. ) Ahhh, okay. Well, he seemed all right earlier, so... you could always call and check up on him. I'm sure he wouldn't mind at all. * Chie smiles. ( Wanna bet? :P ) Maybe I will. Maybe I'll just visit again, but I don't want to make a habit of it, 'cause most people need sleep and things and sleep makes them happy so they don't get dark circles around their eyes and talk in grunts and start killing random passerbys for coffee. * Maria nods sagely at that remark. * Chie laughs. "Very true." * Chomei sits down again. "... Right." Yeah. Lots of weird people sleep at night. Suckers. Hey, I sleep at night, and I don't think this makes me any more or less- what flavor? Hey, I only sleep during part of the night. And I'm still weird. No, weird people sleep during day. Is *them* you need be scared of. * Maria giggles. [The phone rings!] I'll get it. Aww, c'mon Maria! What flavor! * Maria pouts. "Hey! I sleep during the day. Well, the morning part, anyway." * Chie walks over to the phone and picks it up. Huh? Oh. Uhm... grape! ( The phone explodes! Doh! ) Grape! * Maria nodnods! "Grape!" ( *cough* Eoi-sensei... you never said anything about exploding phones.) "Hello?" * Rei hmms. "Are we talking about fermented or non? Though I suppose fermented grapes would make me alcoholic, which might be a bad thing, since then wine tasters would be out to drink my blood in addition to mosquitoes and other such beings." ( /me reads that as wine tasers. ) (Ooh. I need to build one of those.) * Maria blinks. "Eh?" * Lazar hrms. "Is mosquitos in Japan two feet long, like in Transylvania?" No. Ah. Is good. Not unless they get a dose of radioactive ooze which, by all accounts, shouldn't exist. The radioactive ooze? "Hello?" No, you! Then no use mace as flyswatter in Japan. * Chomei looks at himself. "I'm not two feet high." ( He lies! ) "This isn't funny. I'm going to hang up." * Maria blinks. * Demota is now known as DemoX-Com * Chie shudders involuntarily. "...you. What do you want?" * Rei blinks, too. "Chie? Everything okay over there? We really should get a speaker phone." * Chie covers the headset briefly. "It's... it's Katsu, Rei. You want to talk to him?" * Maria blinks. * Rei freezes for a moment, then nods. "Okay. He's my brother, I should talk to him. Family, and stuff." * Rei stands up and heads over to get the phone. Okay, hang on a sec. * Chie uncovers the phone. "Got it. Hold on a second..." * Chie holds the phone out to Rei after she's done. * Lazar does the growling golem thingee. * Rei takes the phone and puts it to her ear. "Yo, little bro. What's up?" * Maria frowns. * Chie pulls a piece of paper and a pen out of her bag and scribbles something down. * Chomei folds his arms. Hey, Katsu, this isn't funny. I knwo we did lots of prank calling, but the whole not-talking thing was thrown out years ago. (know, even.) * Maria hops off the desk and walks over to stand by Chie and Rei. Yeah, I love you too. So why'd you call? * ChAnime is now known as Chamelaeon * Rei 's eyes widen. "What the hell are you *doing*?" * Maria blinks. * Maria gives Chie a worried look. * Rei takes a deep breath. "What do you want?" * Peter stares at Rei, worried. * Chie gives Maria a worried look in return, then turns to Rei. * Maria looks back to Rei, still looking worried. Lot of that going around, all of a sudden. * Chomei looks over at Rei, a serious look on his face. Yeah. Yeah. Where? Fine, I'll be there. ( Chomei? Serious? @_@ ) (I think I broke the GM's head.) (Yeah. We all know I'm the serious one around here.) ( And Peter is the wacky playful one. ) ( Yup. Rei 'by the book' Ueda. ) ( And Lazar.. man, that guy has never made a pun in his life. ) ( The Ueda's are all screwed up :P ) (And I hate people and have absolutely no sense of humor.) ( And don't forget honest, law-abiding Maria. ) ( Yep. Maria'll grow up to be a cop one day, mark my words. Even if she is spoiled. ) * Rei stays still for a moment, then screams and slams the phone on its set. She storms over to her desk, grabs her backpack, and is out the door. Rei, wait a second! * Chomei gets up. "After her?" * Chie runs after her. ... hey! * Lazar lumbers after Rei. * Maria blinks and follows. "Hold up, Rei! * Chomei nods. He's after her. ( Well, that sure worked c.c ) What is it? You're not gonna run into the trap without us, are you? * Rowyn has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer ) Rei! Stop. * Peter goes after her. * Rei is moving quickly to the elevators, but isn't exactly running. "Fucking Katsu and his piece of shit sword I'm gonna kill him!" * Chie catches up to Rei and grabs her arm. "Hold on! I'm not letting you go out there alone." Rei, what on Earth is going on? * Rei keeps trying to walk, but is held back easily enough. She glares at Chie, but answers Peter. "Katsu's got some chick held hostage and he wants me to be there." Alone? Where? I can go check it out. Some girl? Did he say the name? Where? * Chie ignores the glare. "Yeah, well, he asked for me, too. Gave me an address and everything." * Chomei hears that. "Well shit." Didn't say anything about a hostage, though. No. I know where. Guess this means he wants us all there. Least me an' Chie. I'm not staying behind. ( He doesn't want Lazar there. Lazar's big and menacing. ;_; ) * Lazar nods. "Then we go and hit him often about head and shoulders, no?" What is the address? Did he give a hostage name * Rei grits her teeth at that. "Yeah." * Chie holds up her slip of paper. "Got it written down right here. Think we should run a check on it beforehand, or have we not got time for that?" * Rei tells Peter the address. "I recognize it. 'S a warehouse. Don't know the name." * Chomei cracks his knuckles. "We don't have much time I bet. If we're comming up with a plan, it's going to have to be fast." We can't afford to rush in. Fools rush in, and they will not hesitate to kill us if we fall into a trap. I toldja'. I can scout. My little brother's going to kill her! Kill WHO? * Rei blinks back tears. "I don't know! I don't fucking know, okay?" * Peter sighs. "I.. I'm sorry Rei." Does it matter? Not like we never go rushing into sure trap without plan before... You just have to understand. We can't afford to just rush into a place. As much as I hate this, if any of you should be captured, it would be a terrible blow. It doesn't matter who he's gonna kill. We gotta stop it anyway. They don't want me captured, prof. And if they are expecting you.. especially you Rei, they could have a way to counteract your abilities. He already said no projecting. I have to be there. Can you give me an address? Perhaps it's some place that has been part of supernatural activity before. * Chie hands Peter the paper. * Peter checks the address and thinks. * Maria looks over Peter's shoulder at the address. Hm. I can't think of anything special.. Okay. Did he say to come alone Rei? No. He didn't say one way or the other to me. * Rei nods at Chie. d10 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (d10) and gets 5. He's going to expect all of us. Okay.. Rei, is there any way you could get plans for this building on the way there? Not unless someone drives me. Of course he is. Why should we give him what he wants? He'll already be suspicious because Makoto is missing. Alright. Rei, you can go in the van. If I can't fit in, I might be able to keep up on foot. I think I can handle that. If we could find some way for Maria to sneak in easily.. or perhaps a new way for Lazar and Chomei to come through, we might be able to gain the element of surprise. ( Alternatively, Chomei could use a fire arrow and give you the element of fire :P ) (*thwaps Brett.) (Burning stuff works. *nods*) I can break through door... wall, maybe. ( But then we still need Earth, Wind, Water and Heart. ) * Rei just pulls out BOX and opens it, typing with her free hand. Most warehouses aren't too sturdy. Lazar could bash his way in no sweat. Indeed, but if they planned this place, the walls could be reenforced. * Chomei nods. However, I'd perfer Lazar being able to make another door for us should they block off our escape path. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-3) and gets 7. Then we go in through wall. If nothing else, we avoid traps set up at doors. If we do that, we risk the hostage. We have to get in quietly and unnoticed. * Rei presses a button and turns the computer. "Got it." Chie, Rei and I will go in through the door. The rest of you, I want to find a surprise entrance. See if you can put the hostage at as little risk as possible. May I see Rei? * Chie looks at the computer screen. 'S why I'm letting you look, right? * Rei points things out. "Front door, back door, offices up here, catwalk." * Lazar nods. "No am so good at quiet, remember." * Peter eyes the screen. * Chomei nods. Any cieling windows? Or does it say? * Peter pushes his glasses up and mummers. Hm. Okay. Lazar, it's a large-scale building. You could smash your way in almost anywhere without bringing it down on our heads. Although... the offices will probably have windows. I could get in through there. Where do you think the hostage will be? Up on the catwalk? * Maria looks the building over and nods. "Probably." I'd advise you try coming in somewhere around the middle. If he is waiting for us, that might be where it is. No skylight, no sewer entrances.. * Lazar grunts. "No like splitting up too much." ( I dunno. Consult one of the old MCs. I'm sure I did this before. ) * Rei points. "There're windows here and here, close to the ceiling. No skylights, though." I don't want everyone inside when we go in. If it is a trap, and this place is set to explode, we don't want to risk losing the entire group. * Chie nods at Lazar. "I don't like splitting up much either, Laz. But we might have to." * Peter checks the windows. We'll try not to get cut in half then. * Chomei checks his watch. "Alright." Windows might work. I could work along the cieling to get to the catwalk and drop down from there. Hm. Try to come in from the back Maria. No window is really better then any other. Chomei, you should follow Lazar in. * Peter sighs. We're not going on much here, but it's the best we have. * Chomei nods. "I wonder if the doors are unlocked though..." How long should we wait after you enter? * Lazar looks back at Chomei and grins. "It no matter." * Peter hands Lazar his cel phone. We don't want to make a sound, and that means we don't break the door. May I borrow someone's cel phone? * Chie fishes hers out of her bag and hands it to Peter. * Lazar hands the cel phone to Chomei, since he has no pockets that aren't illusions. =P Here you go, prof. Might have to fiddle with the settings a bit. I already have a phone, you just keep yours prof. And golem fingers no good for phone. * Peter hands Chie back her phone and takes his. * Chie puts her phone in her bag. * Chomei gives Peter his number (I thought he already had it. @_@). "There." Fine. I need your number Chomei. I'll keep my phone in my pocket. Should we get into a situation, I'll dial. When it rings, come in. * Peter sets his phone to silent. * Lazar hrms. "If we busting in, is no way to avoid making noise." Or, on the other hand, should you hear us screaming in pain, feel free to rush in. * Rei twitches. "We ready?" Of course not. Should you need to bust in, it will be for a fight. * Lazar nods. And yes, we are. Shall we be off? I think so. As ready as we're gonna be. * Chomei nods. "Alright, let's do this." Anybody riding with me, or are y'all takin' the van? * Lazar heads down to the van. * Rei snaps her computer closed and goes on out of there. "I'm driving myself." * Chomei runs down. "It's the van for me this time. Can't afford to get too unnerved right now." ( Meanwhile at the warehouse... * Katsu paces. "Where are they? They said they'd be here!" :P ) * Chie quirks an eyebrow. "I unnerve you. Right." ( Oh, come on. This look like 10 minutes. We can say we were caught in traffic. ) I'll go with ya', Chie. * Peter heads for the van, hops into the driver's seat and wishes he could afford a better car. * Chie nods at Maria. "Cool. Let's go. * Maria nods back. * Rei gets on her beat up bike, revs, and races out of there. * Chie heads out with Maria in tow. * Peter drives off. [Time: 9:00 p.m. They get to the warehouse. The lights are off and it's nice and dark.] * Rei skids to a stop and hops off. She looks like she's about to go in, but restains herself and waits for Chie and Peter. * Chie parks her bike, takes off her helmet, and hops off. * Peter draws his crossbow, keeps one hand on his phone (in his pocket) and backs up Rei. * Maria hops off. "They're definitely watching for us. I should probably dress up for the occasion." * Chie kneels down and rummages her bag. She pulls out her sword. "Hey, Nea. You awake? I might need your help again tonight." * Peter nods. "Take care Maria." * Chomei summons his bow. "Let's get into position." * Chie looks up briefly. "Good luck, Maria." * Rei nods at Maria. She looks to Peter and Chie. "Ready?" * Chomei watches Maria go. "Good luck." * Lazar gets out of the van. "Loading dock sound like good place to wait, Chomei?" * Chomei nods. Nice big door for ya. * Chie eyes her sword. "Oh, yeah, *now* you're quiet." She puts it back in her bag and looks over at Rei. "Ready as I'm gonna be, I think." * Maria hops into the van, quickchanges, and comes out in her not-really-ninja- gear-honest. She takes off for the warehouse, swift and silent like wind. Cool. Lead the way Rei. * Rei does just that, heading on into the warehouse. * Chie follows Rei, letting Peter bring up the rear, keeping her senses alert. Let's go. * Chomei heads off to the loading docks. * Chie waves briefly to Chomei and Lazar as she goes. * Lazar waves, and lumbers off to the loading dock entrance. * Peter 's Not Dying skill is optomised if he's in the back, so he follows. * Chomei looks back and smiles back to Chie. * Chie gives Chomei a quick smile. [You go on in. You're faced with stacks of red and blue crates, forming a nice maze.] How cliche. * Rei shrugs and starts walking through the maze. Nice decor. * Chie follows Rei. * Peter follows. [After some walking, you emerge into a clearing in the center of the warehouse, where you can see allllll the way on the catwalk on the other side, Katsu and Virgil near the offices. No hostage in sight; maybe she's in there.] ( Meanwhile, Chomei and Lazar play Egyptian Rat Screw... up until the first slap. Then it's gin rummy. =P ) (Owww... Why do you have to slap so hard?) (*snicker*) ( Should play Samurai Kirby. ) ( * Peter eyes Katsu and Virgil. [They eye you back.] * Katsu fairly yells. "About time!" * Chie clamps her jaw shut. I love you, too. What do you want? * Katsu shrugs. "Like I told Chie. The usual." He nods to Virgil. * Rei looks over at Chie. "The usual?" Hell if I know. * Rei turns back to Katsu. "What's 'the usual', then?" * Virgil points his cane at you. "Then you shall go no further. It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake." A dark portal opens before you, and out pops... A semi-transparant cow. roll init ^^ This is blazingly stupid. d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Peter (d6+6) and gets 11. d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (d6+6) and gets 8. * Chie boggles. "What the fuck?" d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (d6+7) and gets 9. ( Cowish terror of spirit. Blame Shakespeare :P ) (Wow. That's an actual quote?) d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (d6+7) and gets 11. ( Cowish being easily cowed. Cute. ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6) and gets 10. ( Goneril to Edmund, King Lear Act 4 Scene 2 ) ( You suck. ) (Heh.) [Peter, Maria, Chie, Cow, Rei] [Peter's turn!] * Peter decides to wait. "Where is the hostage?" * Katsu grins. "Hostage?" ( No, no! Shoot first, ask questions *later*! ^_~ ) [Chie's turn!] * Chie ponders. Drama queen up there said "spirit," thing's semi-transparent, so... exorcism time! * Chie chants. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 2. Damnation! You know what hostage! [Chie begins exorcising the thing.] [The cow tries to break free, but fails! Doh!] Ohhhh. THAT hostage. Heh. [Rei's turn!] ( Man, that's gonna be some tough beef if you keep exercising it. ) * Chie would say something if she weren't so busy making the pretty light shine! (* Chomei shoots ND.) * Rei walks by the cow and nearly onto the catwalk. "Yeah, that hostage. Where is she?" ( Turn it into an incorporeal hamburger. ) ( Here, Rei! Now you can eat in your astral form!) ( soul roll, Rei ^^ ) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6) and gets 3. ( You got soooooooooul, sista. ) [A yellow light flashes as Rei walks, but she goes through it.] [Peter's turn!] * Peter follows Rei. Not like he'll be useful against a incorporal cow anyway. God, I never thought I'd have to type that. (*snickers*) (You played all the way through MC1 and you didn't think you'd have to *type* that?) ( Well, no. In MC1, I woulda been useful against an incorporal cow. ) ( Peter, soul roll! ) (Point taken.) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Peter (2d6) and gets 3. [Same thing happens to Peter!] [Chie's turn!] * Chie watches Rei and Peter go, but keeps up with the exorcism. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 3. Chie exorcises it so much that it turns into a hamburger. Complete with astral ketchup.] (Hey, cool!) (Wow, sweet!) (Astral ketchup? Wow.) Well, that's out cue. * Chie blinks. "That's new." * Chie then turns her attention to Katsu. ( Meanwhile, Lazar and Chomei have resorted to playing rock-paper- scissors. Lazar protests when paper beats rock. ) (Hee. ^_^) Your cue for what? Or are you gonna lord that over me, too? (Chomei, then, covers Lazar in a big sheet of paper. See? It beat you.) * Maria comes up behind Chie and taps her on the shoulder. * Katsu calls to the offices. "All yours!" He waves. "Oh, and happy birthday in advance, Rei." * Virgil nods. "Fly, brother! Torches, Torches! So, Farewell!" He wraps himself and Katsu, in flaming wings, and they vanish. (...) ... * Chie jumps and whirls around. "Oh, it's you, Maria. God, you scared me." ... That was.. uh.. strange. * Rei runs across the catwalk. * Chie watches Katsu and Virgil leave. "I think we'd better get up there." * Maria puts her finger to her lips, and then sighs. "Nevermind. Sorry, I was trying to be quiet, but it looks like they're gone already." And yeah. * Peter runs after Rei. * Maria heads up to the catwalk! * Chie starts running for the catwalk. [As you run onto the catwalk, a woman emerges from the office! She looks foreign, about your age, with flowing, waist-length dark brown hair and bright blue eyes. She's wearing a black leather jacket, baggy cargo-pants and a white shirt with a stripe across the midriff. Also, she's got two earrings in her left ear.] * Virgil is now known as Woman * Woman waves and grins. "Hiya." ( Our age? Hey, we have widely different ages pal! ) Err. Hello. Who are you? (Only two earrings? Bah. I'm not impressed. ;p) * Rei runs across the catwalk, skids to a halt, and blinks at her. * Woman smiles. "I'm the hostage! Except not really. Name's Victoria." * Woman is now known as Victoria * Maria gets up on the catwalk, presumably, and blinks. * Chie follows the others and eyes the non-hostage. * Victoria waves at Rei. "Hi Rei! It's been so long! I haven't seen you in like, ever. Literally!" Figures. What'd you want? * Rei blinks again, then waves back. "Yeah?" UUh.. * Victoria smiles widely. She has very smallish fangs. "Yeah! We've never met, but I know you REAL well." * Rei swallows, suddenly aware of just how close to the other girl she is. "What'd my brother tell you about me?" * Victoria frowns and looks around. "I'm kinda disappointed, though. Chomei didn't show up." * Chie narrows her eyes. "What do you want?" * Peter steps backwards. "A... What on earth?" Now, now. I'll tell you. Don't be in such a rush. See, where I come from... Well, there's nothing to do! It's so boring. 2d6-7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Peter (2d6-7) and gets 1. No.. not a vampire.. What are you? * Victoria grins. "Let's just say I come from a very esteemed family." ( Chelseakid? ) (My first guess.) (Though I imagine Rei would know if Chelsea had a kid. ^^;) ( Unless it's a evil clone kid. ) ( Or a secret kid raised in hell by her evil father who kidnapped her evilly. ) Anyhow, I made a deal with that old guy. What's his name? E? Yeah, that's it. Yeah? What's that? ( Meanwhile, Chomei and Lazar have gone home. =P ) Aw. I can't tell you that yet. Let's just say it involves you guys and me, and lots of fun. You're here to kill us, aren't you? Oooh, fun. Yay. Kill? Oh, noooo... Well, I'm not gonna try for that. Not yet. What have you planned? Oh. Just knock us around some? * Victoria beams at Maria. "Yep! I suppose going clubbing would be out of the question? Mmm... Maybe after. Figured. You really can't stay enigmatic for long when you're talking about violence, you know. Being knocked around sorta ruins my mood for clubbing. Enigmatic? You flatter me. Not that I mind. Yeah, I do. Aww, c'mon. Why wait? I know where some great DJ's are gonna be playing right this moment! Hey, where's Lazar? They said he was a real hunk. ( ... of STONE! ) * Maria says dryly, "You have no idea." * Peter mumbles "of stone.." (Go Peter!) * Chie snickers involuntarily. But yeah, Lazar is really chisseled, lemme tell ya'. Are you going to sit here enigmatically all day, or are you going to explain what you want? Well, I was gonna start with him. Or maybe Chomei, but they're not here! Didn't I tell you? I just want to fight for a while. * Chie narrows her eyes again. "So sorry." Any particular reason? I mean, what do you get out of this? We really don't have time I'm afraid. Please call our office and schedule an appointment. Well... Something. But I can't tell you. Or I don't want to. Hey, look. There are lots of ways to have a good time, and some of them don't even involve violence! * Victoria beams at Peter. "Who said you had a choice?" Well, it's rather impolite to fight us without an appointment. We are really rather busy people. ( Meanwhile, Chomei and Lazar have eloped and moved back to Transylvania. ) (Damn you, Lazar!) (... NO) Well, I kinda figured you wouldn't want to. That's why I faked being a hostage, after all. I needed to get you down here. * Rei sighs softly, looking around the warehouse. "Great. Way to go, Katsu." Ah, don't be like that. What'm I supposed to be like? I'm sorry, how would you like us to be? (Out of my head, Rei.) (Nope.) (Okay. Then you can start paying rent!) * Peter sighs. "I don't suppose we could just bribe you to leave?" * Victoria grins. "It's your birthday tomorrow, isn't it? How 'bout I come? I'll bring presents!" * Rei blinks and turns back to Victoria. She seems speechless, then manages a, "What?" * Victoria grins. "Want me to bring the cake? I can do that." A poison cake? I... was gonna bake my own cake, actually. Recipe I've been working on. Should be good. * Victoria pouts at Peter. "Don't be so mean! I wouldn't do that." * Rei blinks a couple times. You wish to fight us, but you wouldn't bake a posion cake? I'm failing to see the logic here. ( o/~ If I knew you were comin' I'd have baked a cake! o/~ ) * Victoria beams brightly at Peter. "It's because if I wanted you dead, you'd be dead." ^_^ * Maria hops up and perches on the railing. I'm confused. You wanna go to my birthday party - and I don't even have one yet - and bring presents and stuff, but you also wanna beat us up? * Victoria nodnods. "Uh huh!" ( Meanwhile, Lazar and Chomei have already started MC3. ) So do you just wanna hang out with us or what? And if I ask why, you won't tell us, right. Can we just skip the beating up part? ( Poor Lazar and Chomei. Someone call them. ) It's because fighting is fun! And where I come from, they always lose on purpose. So... it's not personal. You just want strong opponents? I don't think it's very fun. Really. Sure they're not just wimps? ( Yes, call us. I'm running out of witty lines. =P ) Well, that could be, too... When you're me, it's hard to tell. Oh, no, not person... Mm... Well... Not in an I-don't-like-you personal sense. (I'm waiting for something to happen...) ... * Chie rolls her eyes. "So glad you don't hate us. Have you tried looking into martial arts schools? Lots of people to spar against there." Martial arts? Not my thing. * Victoria grins and draws twin pistols. "This is the only way to go." Guns. How cute. * Chie blinks. You prolly even think you're a good fighter 'cause of those, huh? Funky. Why don't people use swords anymore? Like I said. When you're me, it's hard to tell. * Chie looks at Peter. "Ahem." Oh, I can use a sword. But I like these better. ( She's Togo's grandmother! ) But guns are so impersonnal, so... crutch-like. Would you rather I not use them? You'd be sorry! Oh, I don't mind either way. I'm pretty good against people with guns, really. ( I like swords. Naginatas are pretty cool, too... damn. Did it again.) Okay! I'd honestly perfer we don't fight at all. * Peter presses "dial" on the phone. Okay? Spoilsport. ( CHARGE! ) ( But the phone is out of batteries! No ring! ) (*Chomei plays the trumpet!) * Chomei picks up. "Yes?" (Chomei's an idiot.) * Peter honestly boggles as Chomei's voice ruins everything. * Rei facepalms. (Damn straight.) ... ... * Maria shakes her head sadly. Who's that? (Outside, Lazar strangles Chomei. Sounds of a beating can be heard through the phone.) * Chie mutters. "Oh, way to go." * Peter sighs. "I knew I should have given it to Lazar." Is that Chomei? Hi Chomei! * Lazar facepalms, busts through the loading dock door, grabs Chomei by the shirt and DRAGS him inside as he charges in. ( I've changed my mind, Chie. You can keep him. ) ( No thanks, Maria. He's all yours.) * Victoria grins. "Yay!" (Well SHIT! See what happens when I don't do anything. ;_;) If anyone would like to beat upon Chomei after this is over, I shall turn a blind eye. I may just take you up on that, prof. ( Oh, no. I insist. ) Or, at least, get the hair dye. * Maria grins. [They burst out near the catwalk but (obviously) on the ground floor.] ( No, no, Maria. We're friends, and friends give each other things!) I have this neat bottle of Nair I always wanted to use. * Chomei suddenly feels like an idiot. "Oh yeah..." * Lazar looks around, and drops Chomei on his butt. "Where is stupid boy with swo- hey." ( Yes. So I give you Chomei. And it'd be rude to turn him down. ) * Chomei gets off his rump. "You got me, now what genius?" * Victoria waves at Lazar and Chomei, pistol in hand. "Hi Chomei! And you must be Lazar! Hi Lazar!" * Lazar looks up. "... why everyone up on catwalk? What take so long? Who is lady with guns?" * Rei idly wonders why Victoria wasn't looking for Makoto, too, but hey. * Chomei looks around. "Wh- I have no clue." * Rei calls down, "She wants to kick one of your asses. Oh, and go to my birthday party." ( But I don't have anything for you! So I can't accept such a generous gift.) * Chomei yells back up. "What?" * Rei throws a banana at Chomei. (Chomei has no clue. Wow. This is such a surprise! ;p) * Victoria waves. "I'm Victoria. Hiya!" * Lazar smacks Chomei upside the head lightly. ( Oh, I'll accept, uh, some hair dye?) * Chomei grabs it. "What? I couldn't see her." He holds his head. ( *sighs* Okay, fine. *hands Maria a box of hair dye* But don't think you're not getting him back for a Christmas present!) Oh, not one. It wouldn't be fair. ... okay. Can everyone come down from silly catwalk so can brawl like polite people? I was hoping you'd all fight me. Uh... I kinda suck at the fighting thing. * Rei pauses. "Okay, so I really suck." Oh. You can just watch, then. Can we not settle this without fighting? * Victoria pouts. "But that's the best part!" ( That gives me a few months to disappear... ) * Lazar grumbles impatiently. "Why people talk so much before fight in Japan?" * CharleSleep has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) I don't know. What the heck happened? (Remember when we were talking about Makoto being this group's Eoi? I changed my mind. It's Chomei.) ( Eoi wasn't deaf ;_; ) I no know. We wait outside for long time, now they up on silly catwalk discussing birthday plans. Yeah, what do you say we just go? I mean, they obviously don't need us here. * Lazar whaps Chomei upside the head lightly again. * Chomei holds his head after that. "What? It was just a joke." * Maria facepalms. * Chie looks down at Chomei. "Hey, do me a favor, Chomei? Shut up. Please." She smiles at him. Alright, alright. Let's go down to the floor, where there's room, and then we can fight. Okay? ... so. If going to fight, all come down here and we beat each other up like civilized people. Okay. * Rei sighs and starts across the catwalk so she can get back down. "I'm sitting this out." ( You! Psycho-pistol lady! If you're gonna give Rei a birthday present, it's only fair that we get you a little something. So, here! *shoves Chomei at her*) * Victoria jumps off the catwalk, flips in the air, and lands in a crouch below. I.. I believe I'll join Rei. I can not fight either. ( *cracks up* ) * Maria does likewise, remaining in the crouch, ready to pounce. * Lazar stretches his neck, although he has no actual neck muscles to stretch. Force of habit, prolly. ( Lazar's secret: He's not actually a golem. They didn't have time to finish the golem, so they stuck his soul in a life-sized action figure. ) * Rei makes a couple quick gestures behind her back at the prof. * Rei climbs on down. * Peter eyes Rei and signs back. * Rei doesn't seem to notice. She's climbing! (*snicker*) (Oh, everyone hates me now... Well, it could be worse.) * Chie gets off the catwalk and draws her sword, doing a few practice swings. [When Peter reaches the bottom of the stairs, a sleeping cap suddenly appears on his head, and he falls asleep standing up.] (Sweet!) * Rei looks at the professor oddly. "And he calls me weird. Why does all the freaky stuff happen to him, anyhow?" * Lazar blinks, and facepalms. "I no is part of this group... I just random passerby..." You know, if you really want, I'm available tomorrow. We can reschedule the fight for then. Oh, no, now's fine. Okay! You're *sure* you wanna do this? Absolutely sure? * Victoria nods. "Uh huh." Ready? More or less. * Chomei shrugs. Guess so. I'm still not crazy about the idea, mind you. Well, you don't have to if you don't want. But the less of you there are, the less of a chance you stand. * Maria giggles, since she really finds that funny. "Right, right. I think the four of us can pull it off." * Lazar mutters. "Talk talk talk..." * Chie goes into a ready stance. "Let's go, then." Did you want to fight, or talk? * Chomei readies his bow. * Rei looks. "No killing, right? Right?" I'll try not. I'm pretty good. Usually. Besides, if I kill you, I won't be able to fight you again later. Where's the fun in that? * Rei blinks, still not finding the fun in fighting. "... Nowhere, I guess." ( That's because you're a stick in the mud, Rei. ) ( Yeah. Embrace the violence, Rei. ) (Nothing like Gratuitous violence.) (I know. Rei onna Stick inthe Mud. ;_;) * Victoria raises her pistols. "Ready?" (Everything tastes better on a stick.) ( And it doesn't get any more gratuitous than 'Let's fight 'cause I wanna'. ;) ) * Lazar rubs his forehead. "Been ready for an hour..." For forever. Ok! Here we go! [Roll init] d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (d6+7) and gets 12. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (d6+7) and gets 11. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (d6+7) and gets 12. d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (d6+8) and gets 11. ( And only the people fighting, by the way ) (That is all the people fighting. ~_^) [Victoria, Lazar, Chie, Maria, Chomei] (Nope, Maria's before me.) [Victoria, Lazar, Maria, Chie, Chomei] [Victoria's turn!] * Victoria crosses her arms and fires at Lazar and Chomei. She then whips her left arm around to fire at Maria. Only Lazar and Maria need defense rolls. 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets 1. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6) and gets 4. ( Made it. ) [They both duck out of the way!] [Lazar's turn!] * Lazar runs at Victoria and tries to clothesline her. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-2) and gets 5. [Lazar hits Victoria with his full strength, yet she keeps on her feet. She grins, showing her fangs.] [Maria's turn!] * Maria leaps at Victoria, kicking for her face. 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets 3. [Maria connects with her chin, snapping her head back. But she doesn't even knock any teeth out.] [Chie's turn!] * Chie runs up to Victoria and swings her sword at her. Normally, she'd use the flat of her blade, but, hey, this girl is trying to *shoot* them. She gets the edge! 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 3. [Chie cuts into Victoria, but doesn't draw as much blood as she might have expected.] [Chomei's turn!] * Chomei aims his bow for Victoria's left hand and fires an ice arrow. (Called Shot) 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-1) and gets 7. * Victoria darts to the side, avoiding the arrow. [Victoria's turn!] * Victoria keeps going to the side. She reaches the wall, and starts to run up it, laughing all the time. [Lazar's turn!] * Rei watches Victoria run up. She'd be a little more impressed if Maria couldn't do the same, but it's still cool. * Demota is now known as DemoSleep * Lazar grumbles something about people in Japan not standing and fighting, then goes to try to pick up one of the crates and chuck it at her. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6) and gets 8. [Lazar lifts the crate, but only manages to get it about a foot off the ground.] [Maria's turn] * Maria leaps upwards towards Victoria, lashing out with a flurry of kicks! 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets 5. [Maria lashes out with a flurry of kicks! All two of them. The catches Victoria with one on the shoulder.] [Chie's turn!] * Chie goes into a defensive stance, since she can't throw heavy things, run up walls, or shoot energy arrows. (total defense) [Chomei's turn!] (What good are you, Chie?) (I can exorcise stuff! I made astral hamburgers!) (Man. Now I wish Rei did astrally project, so then she could eat the astral hamburger.) (That woulda been cute. ^_^) * Chomei fires a fire arrow at Victoria. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-2) and gets 8. [Chomei hits Victoria with the arrow, and it begins to catch.] [Victoria's turn] * Victoria leaps off the wall and onto a crate. She looks down at the arrow, and the flames suddenly extinguish themselves. [Lazar's turn!] * Lazar tries to heft the crate again, then chuck it at Victoria. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6) and gets 6. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6) and gets 5. * Victoria backflips off the crate she's standing on as the crate Lazar threw hurtles her way. She's hidden behind there now. [Maria's turn] * Maria spots Victoria and leaps down to kick at her side. 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets -1. [Maria kicks Victoria in the side. She takes a step to the left to keep her balance.] [Chie's turn!] * Chie sees a path between the crates that leads to where Victoria went. She runs that way. [Chomei's turn!] * Chomei follows a good distance behind Chie. [Victoria's turn] * Victoria jumps into the air aid fires downwards at Chie and Maria as she flips backwards. When she spins far enough, she fires a third shot at Lazar, upside down. 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets 3. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6) and gets 8. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6) and gets 8. [Chie takes a bullet in her leg. Lazar gets shot in the chest, taking out a good chunk of stone.] [And Maria gets out of the way, lest we forget :P] [Lazar's turn!] * Maria dodges nimbly. ;P Owwww! * Rei stays on the sidelines. "You okay, Chie?" she calls. You okay? If you call getting shot in the leg okay, yes! ... Didn't think so. * Lazar grunts, then goes to pick up another crate to try to whack Victoria out of the air. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6) and gets 5. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-2) and gets 7. [Lazar knocks Victoria aside with a powerful blow. She crashes into the top crate on a stack, making a big dent in the side, then falls to the floor. But she lands on her feet.] [Maria's turn!] * Chie grumbles as she limps along. "This is why I don't like guns." * Victoria grins. "Now that's more like it!" * Lazar grins a big golem-magically-appearing-as-a-human grin. * Chomei nods. "Being shot is no fun... not like I speak from experience, but I bet it hurts." * Maria leaps at Victoria again, aiming a kick at her midsection. * Rei looks at Chie worriedly. "Can you still fight like that?" ( You will, Chomei. You will. ) (Goodie. ^_^) * Chie looks up at Rei. "Guess I'll find out." 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets -1. [Maria kicks Victoria back against the crate.] [Chie's turn!] * Chie leans against a crate, then pulls a ward out of her bag and hurls it at Victoria. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6) and gets 5. [The ward attaches itself to Victoria ans starts to burn.] [Chomei's turn!] * Chie raises an eyebrow in surprise. I'll take it. ( Starts to burn her skin :P ) * Chomei aims his bow at Victoria. It cackles with electricity as he fires the arrow, lightning trailing the arrow torwards the target. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-2) and gets 3. (Ahh, electric arrow. Well, we had fire and ice already. And the black arrows of DOOM.) (Oh, you knew I couldn't resist. ^_^) [The lightning arrow connects with Victoria and riddles her body with electricity.] [Victoria's turn!] * Victoria tears the ward off with one hand and fires a shot at Chomei with the other. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-2) and gets 2. [Chomei ducks behind the crate!] [Lazar's turn!] * Lazar sets the crate down (since he doesn't wanna whack Maria), and tries to grab Victoria in a bear hug and pin her arms to her sides. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lazar (2d6-1) and gets 5. [Victoria slips out of Lazar's grip as he grabs at her.] [Maria's turn] * Maria leaps and kicks at Victoria again! 2d6-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-5) and gets -1. [Maria kicks Victoria in the side!] [Chie's turn!] * Chie manages to make her way over to Victoria and slashes at her again. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chie (2d6-3) and gets 3. * Victoria whirls out of the way of the attack. [Chomei's turn!] * Chomei shoots an ice arrow at Victoria. 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chomei (2d6-2) and gets 4. [Chomei hits Victoria with the arrow, covering one of her shoulders in ice.] [Victoria's turn!] * Victoria beams. "Well, that was fun, huh? Wanna go a few more minutes, or have you had enough for now?" ... ... * Rei blinks, and a relieved look passes over her face. "You're done?" * Lazar growls. Oh, it was all fun and stuff until you *shot* me. Hey, if you wanna keep going, I don't mind. * Chie sits. "I'm done." I... I think that's good enough. ...you're not serious. You can't be. * Rei runs over to Chie and sits, too, taking a look at that bullet wound. Why not? * Chomei whipes his forehead. He walks over to Chie. "How's it look Rei?" *jaw drops* She evil! She working with people trying to kill us! We no can just walk away so she can recover and try and kill us tomorrow! ...she isn't going to kill us, Lazar. Laz, if she wanted to kill us, she wouldn't have aimed for my leg. That's make too much sense, see. * Victoria smiles. "If I wanted to kill you, I would have. It's as easy as that." No today, maybe. But next time... * Chomei narrows his eyes at her. "I'm sure you're just feeling nice, right?" * Victoria nods. "Yeah, pretty much." * Rei digs around in her backpack, pulling out some gauze and wrapping Chie's leg. "You'll be fine. It just grazed ya; probably be scarred over by this time tomorrow." I dunno. ( Prolly be fully healed by tomorrow. ) (Shh. ^_~) * Chie nods at Rei. "Thanks. Yay, my very first bullet wound! Something to tell all my friends... oh, wait, most of you are already here." Did you agree to kill us? Or is that not in the contract? * Rei thwaps Chie on the back of the head. But she grins. Actually, I didn't really think about it. Well, it's kinda' important. * Chie grins back at Rei. "Yeah, I know." * Chomei chuckles. "Hey, if she doesn't want to kill us, I'm not going to make her." No, really. Do you want me to? * Chie looks up at Victoria. "No. I'd prefer not to be killed, thank you very much." If Mr. E or whatever he name is asks you to kill us, will you try? * Chie does not mention the fact that Victoria's "friends" disagree on that point. I don't know yet. Being killed would kinda... okay, it *would* suck. Don't want it. Besides, if I get killed, then I can't have my birthday party tomorrow, and it'd suck even more. Being killed would really ruin my day. Oh, I won't kill you before your birthday, Rei. If I did, I wouldn't get any ice cream. * Lazar rubs his temples. "So you willing to shoot us, but no sure if you willing to kill us?" I told you, that was just for fun! I'm not complaining about how much you hit me, am I? You started fight. You no get to complain. Any way we could get that to be a definite no? * Maria rubs her face. "Okay, how's this. You'll be at Rei's ...birthday party, right? You can have 'till then to decide if you'll kill us when they ask you to." Well, how am I supposed to know? It depends on what they offer me. And if I feel like it, and... ... so if answer no, she just wander by and wound us from time to time? * Chomei unsummons his bow and just listens. * Demota has joined #BESM Is there anything *we* could offer to get that to be a definite no? I doubt it. You're all human. Or humanish. Or... Y'know. And what are you? * Lazar scowls. * Victoria grins. "Do you have to ask?" * Rei frowns. "You callin' Katsu something other than human? News to me." Well, HE's not. Look, I'll jump right to the chase. If you can't agree to not kill us, we're going to kill you right now, because we *really* don't wanna die. Oh! That's okay, then. I was kinda worried for a second there. Then how would I explain things to our parents? * Rei blinks at Maria. * Victoria chuckles a bit. "You won't be able to kill me." * Lazar nods at Maria. "No can let you just walk away so you can just shoot us whenever you get urge." * Maria looks at Rei. "What? If it's the only way to keep you guys from dying, it's what we have to do, right?" * Chie pushes herself back upright, leaning against a crate and trying to keep the weight of her injured leg. "We aren't gonna just be your targets." It... never mind. It's been a long day. A really, ungodly long day. * Maria looks at Victora again. "And I think we could. It'd take a good long while, but it'd happen eventually. And let's face it, either way means no more fun for you, right?" I'll be blunt. I'm not sure if she said she wouldn't kill us, that she would keep her word. But I also don't see any other alternative than this. * Victoria frowns. "Well, at least Chomei has some sense." (Chomei. Has sense. Pardon me while I laugh hysterically. ;p) (We tease because we love, Chomei. ^_~) ( Sure you do. ^_^ ) It's not like I'd shoot you in the back. There's no fun in that. * Chomei chuckles. "So all I have to do is keep my back turned to you?" * Lazar shrugs. "Is either try now when we already hit you some or wait until you try again at full health." You can be sure that anytime I wanna fight, I'll tell you first. [Victoria actually doesn't look all that injured.] Keep in mind, some of us got hit too. And I really don't see any wear from our attacks on her, I doubt we could actually do anything. So, what, we wait until whatever damage we do healed, and hope she no have better luck hitting us? * Rei gets to her feet, obviously bothered. "I'm not hearing this," she says, in an amazingly Chomei-like moment. No, I'm saying we leave because trying to finish her off is suicide. You know, it wouldn't be any trouble for me to get out of here anyhow. You sure couldn't stop me. So I'd escape and heal anyway. Why not end it on a good note, instead? * Maria sighs. "Look, is it really that hard to just say "I'm not gonna kill you"? Fine. I'm not gonna kill you. * Lazar sighs, and turns to Maria. "Chie injured, Chomei no want to fight. No like, but no is good situation." * Victoria beams. "That was pretty easy." There, are you happy now? She's not going to kill us. Well, Maria anyways. * Maria raises her hands. "Fine. You're not going to kill us. That's good. I'm glad to not have an uncertain impending doom hanging over my head anymore. Can we go home and get dinner now?" * Lazar throws his hands up in frustration. That's what I've been trying to get around to. See? You should all be more like Chomei. ...right. (Victoria has a crush on Chomei!) * Chie laughs. "Sure." (Hey, he's free now. ;p) * Lazar is looking even more nonplussed than he was before. (Does he ever look plussed?) ( Sure. When he was playing with the Slinky. ) (Got it.) * Chomei looks over to Chie's leg. "Can you drive your bike like that?" Probably not. Guess we'll have to toss it in the back of the van. * Rei looks at Victoria. "Hey, Victoria? Next time you need me to get here, can you not pull the hostage routine? I think I burned all my anger demons today, and they're going to take a while to recharge, which makes them sad. ... Oh yeah, and can you smack Katsu for me? Or at least put peanut butter in his hair." Okay. * Rei grins. "Thanks." But if I just called and said, "Hi, I want to fight you!", would you have come? ... yes, probably. Oh. Okay, I'll remember that. * Victoria stows her guns away. * Rei snerks. "Well, Lazar would go. Y'didn't end up fighting me, anyhow." But Lazar alone wouldn't be any fun! * Maria sighs. "I'd go, too. And I'd drag Chomei by the ear if I had to." Hey! Like this? * Rei grabs Chomei by the ear and drags. "Mom does this all the time." What? Me an' Laz would need artillery support. * Victoria grins. * Chie laughs. Ow ow ow. Stop that! * Maria giggles. Not unless you say please, young man! * Chomei grumbles. "pleaseyoungman." * Rei lets go. * Lazar stares at all of you like you've all grown fifth heads, and stomps off through the hole in the loading dock he created, muttering something that doesn't sound very complimentary in Hungarian. * Maria frowns. "Wait, wait. Your party's tomorrow, Rei? (And if it's in Hungarian, you know it had to hurt.) ( Darn skippy. c.c ) * Rei watches Lazar go and blinks, dully replying, "Yeah, it's tomorrow. 'S my birthday." * Chie watches Lazar leave and sighs. * Chomei watches as he goes off. "I think that's our cue to leave soon." Uhmmm... should I bring a present, or is that only for younger kids? If... you want to? I didn't really expect anybody to bring presents. I mean, it's like a surprise party, only in reverse. Well, that was the idea. * Rei shrugs. "But I guess it's not anymore!" Well, I'll bring one! * Chomei looks at Rei strangely. "... Right." * Chie turns back to Rei. "I've got something in mind for you. Hopefully I can have it finished by tomorrow. But since I know it's your birthday, now, I think I can manage." She smiles. * Rei scratches at the back of her head and looks almost embarrassed. "Y'don't have to, really." * Maria frowns. "Well, in that case, I'd better go... uh, 'shopping'." Aww, but I want to! Now that I actually have friends to do stuff for, I want to do... well, stuff! * Rei laughs. "Okay." She checks her watch. "I need to get home now, I think. Anybody mind dragging the prof to the van and then driving the van to... wherever it is vans go- how's Lazar getting home?" * Chomei hmms. "He usually takes the van, right?" Yeah? ( Except he's already walked away. =P ) Well, I bet he's waiting in the van... or he could just walk home. I don't know if golems need to sleep or not. Maybe we can wake the prof up, 'cause I need a ride back, too. And Laz... well, he's probably gone by now. Which also begs the question of how we're stowing my bike. Gah. Want me to get it for you? ... I think we just need to wake the prof up. * Rei blinks at Victoria. * Victoria blinks at Rei. Get what? The bike. * Chie eyes Victoria. "...somehow, I'm not really surprised. Yeah, sure. That'd be nice, especially since you're the reason I can't ride right now." Aw, you had fun. Well, I had fun, at least. * Chie looks at Victoria and half-smiles. "You have... interesting ideas of fun. I still think we shoulda gone clubbing instead." We can do that sometime, too! ... Cool! I'm up for it! Just not tonight. Okay Right. * Chomei shrugs. "Now that we're all nice and happy, what do you say we get moving, hmm?" Sure. * Rei goes and starts leading the prof to the van. * Chie limps out towards the parking lot. Are you okay to walk on your own Chie? [Rei finds that, oddly, the prof sleepwalks where she directs him. Furthermore, Chie's bike is already in the back of the van.] * Chie turns back to Chomei. "Yeah, I think I can manage. But thanks." * Maria follows along, frowning. * Chomei walks to the lot. "Alright, just thought I'd offer. You've done it enough for me already." [Session End!]